- Feb 15 Johann Gottlieb Gorner, German composer, dies at 80
- Mar 5 Thomas Arne, British composer (Rule Britannia, A-Hunting We Will Go), dies at 67
- Apr 7 Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer, dies at 52
- Jun 7 Johann Georg Zechner, Austrian composer, dies at 62
- Jun 26 Angelo Antonio Caroli, Italian composer, dies at 77
- Jul 28 Arvid Niclas Hopken, composer, dies at 68
- Aug 5 Thomas Linley the younger, English composer and musician "English Mozart", dies at 22
- Aug 11 Augustus Montague Toplady, English hymn writer (Rock of Ages), dies at 37
- Nov 26 Jean-Noel Hamal, composer, dies at 68